WikiLeaks whistleblower faces execution

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Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:58p.m.

Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is out on bail in England right now, but the man who supplied him with the majority of the top secret US military documents is in solitary confinement and been told he could be executed.

Pfc Bradley Manning's lawyer says his client was stripped of all his clothing at night because he had made sarcastic comments about using underwear to commit suicide.

David Coombs said in a blog post Saturday that his client's clothing was taken away at nights after Manning

remarked that if he wanted to harm himself he could do that with "the elastic waistband of his underwear or with his flip-flops".

Marine Corps officials had cited privacy rules Friday in not disclosing more about the Wednesday order that left Manning to sleep naked in his jail cell at the Quantico, Virginia, brig. His attorney has called the treatment degrading.

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